I'm in love with this game so far and I'm absolutely loving trying to romance Bernard! If I was the herbologist I would definitely be hanging out in that shop 24/7. Is there any more currently you can do with him after the second time you go to the hot springs and share a bed?
Save Scumming is helpful if you don't want to miss anything you might want to keep or see, you can do that before exploring the place where the enemy can drop your Sanity meter if you lose or submit to it, there are 4 ways to lose it currently, one of them might not be avaible on the Itch,io version at the moment until it get to version 12.0 in the future.